VIDEO: SEIU ad says, "Send McCain your bills"

By GottaLaff

The Service Employees International Union is targeting John McCain's health care plan in a new ad airing in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, suggesting the Republican's plan will mean tax increases for middle income Americans. [...]

The union will also send literature to 390,000 "undecided health care workers" in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Virginia and Wisconsin, the union says. The mailer compares McCain and Barack Obama's health care proposals. "Only Barack Obama's plan controls costs, expands coverage and holds insurance companies accountable," the mailer says. SEIU will also send an informational DVD about health care issues related more specifically to seniors to voters in Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The union will spend $1 million to air the ad in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin for one week and maybe expand it thereafter. The new ad comes as the Obama campaign has started airing ads about health care that also suggest McCain's health care proposals would raise taxes on middle income Americans. Back in late April, the SEIU aired an ad attacking McCain's health care proposals. It also aired pro-Obama ads during the Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas Democratic primaries.